JavaScript

Module 1: Introduction
• What is JavaScript?
• What is AJAX?

Module 2: Developer Essentials

• The development workflow
• Selecting the right tools for the job
• Just enough HTML and CSS
• Understanding objects
• Understanding variables
• Making comparisons
• Understanding events

Module 3: Starting to Code

• Writing your first script
• Internal vs. external scripts
• Using comments in scripts
• Using the noscript tag in HTML

Module 4: Interacting with Users

• Creating alert dialogs
• Understanding conditional statements
• Getting confirmations from users
• Creating prompts for users
• Understanding functions
• Making links smarter
• Using switch/case statements
• Handling errors

Module 5: JavaScript Language Essentials

• Getting started
• Creating loops
• Passing values to functions
• Detecting objects
• Reading arrays
• Returning values from functions
• Writing arrays
• Building do and while loops
• Re-using functions

Module 6: Creating Rollovers and More

• Creating a basic image rollover
• How to write a better rollover
• Creating a three-state rollover
• Making rollovers accessible and 508 compliant
• Making disjointed rollovers
• Creating slideshows
• Displaying random images

Module 7: Building Smarter Forms

• Getting started
• Creating jump menus
• Creating dynamic menus
• Requiring fields
• Cross-checking fields
• Displaying more informative errors
• Verifying radio button selections
• Setting one field with another field
• Verifying email addresses

Module 8: Handling Events

• Responding to window events
• Responding to mouse movements
• Responding to mouse clicks
• Responding to onBlur form events
• Responding to onFocus form events
• Responding to keyboard events

Module 9: Working with Cookies

• Demystifying cookies
• Writing a cookie
• Reading a cookie
• Displaying a cookie
• Counting with cookies
• Deleting cookies
• Handling multiple cookies
• Cookies in action

Module 10: The DOM, Nodes, and Objects

• Understanding the DOM
• Adding nodes to the DOM
• Deleting nodes from the DOM
• Deleting specific nodes
• Inserting nodes into the DOM
• Replacing nodes in the DOM

Module 11: Working with Dates and Times

• Displaying dates
• Displaying times
• Creating a countdown

Module 12: Real World Applications of JavaScript

• Creating sliding menus
• Creating pop-up menus
• Creating slideshows with captions
• Creating a stylesheet switcher